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Section 36. Orientation on Sexual Harassment. All local offices, school agencies andestablishment or companies, government and private, operating in the municipality shallconduct or sponsor orientation on sexual harassment to their respective personnel.Section 37. Organization and Functionalization of <strong>Local</strong> Councils for the Protection ofWomen and Children. <strong>The</strong> municipality shall ensure the reactivation of the BarangayCouncils for the protection of women and children.Section 38. Equal Access to Livelihood Assistance. All municipal departments andagencies engaged in socio-economic programs shall increase their capital assistance and orsubsidy to women especially on land-based projects.Section 39. Access to Science and Women Friendly Farming Technology Education.<strong>The</strong> Municipal PESO officers shall work in collaboration with other related line agencies ofthe Municipal Government, and the private sector to ensure access to updated and womenfriendly technology to facilitate women’s under participation in the economic activities of theirrespective barangays.Section 40. Farmland for Women Headed Families. Portion of agricultural lands, theownership of which is transferred to the Municipal Government by legal fiat, shall bedistributed to landless and indigent families who are interested and committed to till the land,giving priority to woman-headed household.Section 41. Employment Opportunities to Differently-Abled Women. <strong>The</strong> MunicipalGovernment in partnership with appropriate national government agencies and privategroups and other entities shall develop creative employment opportunities to differentlyabledwomen recognizing their differentiated conditions and potentials as human being.Section 42. Healthy and Gender Fair Work Environment. <strong>The</strong> Municipal Governmentshall ensure that the work place, private or public, actualizes the principle of equalitybetween women and men in all aspects of their employment. For this purpose, employersare required to provide seats proper for women and permit them to use such seats whenthey are free from each and during walking hours, provided they can perform their duties inthis position without detriment to efficiency and provide workers with the necessary gear toguard against the detrimental effects of the nature of their functions such as the specialsupport stocking for female workers required to perform their functions in standing position.Section 43. Benefit for Post – Partum Women. Women with children 0-6 months old shallbe entitled to a 30-day leave without pay to be availed of within the first six months of childdelivery, provided that this benefit is separate and distinct from any existing maternitybenefits provided for by existing laws, provided further that if the employer is alreadyproviding similar benefit over and above what is existing laws, require, such benefit beingprovided shall be credited in compliance thereof.Section 44. Gender-Sensitive Physical Plan. A physical plan appropriate for gendersensitiveenvironment shall be adopted by all offices, agencies and establishment orcompanies which will help prevent sexual harassment, sexual abuse and other forms ofmaltreatment in the work place.222